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Monday, February 1, 2016

SPOTLIGHT ON DEBUT AUTHOR ~LYLA BELLATAS~

Hi all! I wanted you all to meet my friend Lyla Bellatas, if you haven't already met this awesome lady! She is not only a member of the #BOC, she is one very talented debut author, with her sexy romance read, DEEPER, out on Feb. 2. Please enjoy our little Q&A!

Please
tell us a bit about yourself

I am Armenian American born on Long
Island's Gold coast, and have morphed too many times to count. Beginning as an
engineer after college I swiftly made the move to marketeer then drifted to
digital design, printing CEO, tarot enchantress, life coach and math/science
tutor, collecting stories along the way.

My passions have also led to many outlets. I’ve been a high performance race
car driver and driving instructor, poker player without the face, loves to
shoot pool and although I hate being away from home I do enjoy exploring new
places.

I was gifted my first tarot deck
during a chance encounter in an elevator. Innately empathic and claircognizant,
tarot unlocked the natural witch within. I taught tarot, pessomancy (reading
stones) and reading junk oracles. I've read tarot, stones and junk
professionally for decades and I still read with or without a deck when the
moon shines just right.

Swept off my feet by a handsome Greek I met at the race track I finally found
my happily ever after as a wife, mother to a spirited, beautiful daughter and
writer. We live in the NYC suburbs, loving the fast paced brutal honesty, great
restaurants, arts and energy that define NYC and never fail to light a
new / full moon candle charmed now by three.

What
are you currently working on?

I am currently working on the third
book in The Real Fling Series - Rougher - its set in Europe.

What’s your favorite genre to write?

Erotic Contemporary - although I do
love paranormal if there isn’t much world building.

Did
you always want to be a writer? If not, what did you want to be?

YES!

What’s your favorite food?

Slightly dirty martinis… Filet
Mignon Oysters and Escargots...

Do
you have any pet peeves? If so, what are they?

I hate when people don’t listen.
Mean people really upset me. I once saw a homeless man getting beat up in NYC I
stepped in the middle of it. It kills me when people are mean. I always worry
I’m going to pick a fight with the wrong person some day…let’s hope not.

Who was your favorite character to write and
why?

I was in love with Val from Deeper.
I went to lunch with a friend while I was writing the book and she said - where
are you? and I said I’m so in love with this character my head is still with
him. :-)

What’s your favorite television show?

Orange is the New Black! Scandal
Law & Order Madam Secretary The Good Wife. I have a lot.

What’s
your favorite holiday?

I love Halloween and Christmas!
Oh!!!! and My birthday! Except in 2001 :-(

If
you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?I like being home. But anywhere my
husband and child are home to me.

Dream destinations for me are Iceland to see
the Northern Lights… Alaska … Australia…Hawaii or Bora Bora… I’d like to see an
active Volcano. :-)

Please tell us a bit about your current book…

Deeper is about Val and
Adriana. Adriana is on a vacation from hell in Vail Colorado and gets stranded
in back country during a blizzard. Val comes to the rescue and he’s all broody
and sexy and protective. He’s also guarded. Adriana figures what the heck he’s
better than the travel companion she came with who left her in the first place
and a fling very quickly becomes the real thing.

Hotter is the next book
which will be released the beginning of March. It features Sandrine and Leo.
The met 9 years ago during a Katrina relief effort in NOLA and Sandrine who has
just broken her engagement after finding her fiance in bed with another woman
goes to NOLA on an interview and comes face to face with Leo. Leo has not
forgotten Sandrine and tries to woo her back.

2 comments:

Good Luck on your book release. The story sounds really interesting, I can't wait until I read it. It is exciting knowing you before your book was born and watching it come to life. It was great to read all about you. Having talked to you often, I never knew so many things about you. Did your husband read your book, or will he want to read it? Also is your daughter going to read your book also?

Thank you Terry!!! My daughter is way too young to read my books. She's 12 and if I even say the word sex she cringes and runs out of the room. LOL My husband has not read my books but since I bounce ideas off of him all the time he knows the stories and he's quick with helping.

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